Not a finished film but the jumbled remains of one. It consists partly of long sections of subtitle captions without accompanying images, and staged actuality material of two soldiers using a Lewis ma...
The damage is fairly minor, involving houses with a wall missing and similar ruins. British soldiers walk through the ruins and a marching column comes down the street. A wagon-load of British troops ...
The Germans are from various branches and include some Austrians. The first camp is a large school or similar institution, with additional wooden huts built on its grounds. One group of officers poses...
The jumbled film consists of unrelated, very brief items. Some of these appear in other films but the majority are probably unique.
Mixed and confused material, some of it unique, of the Western ...
This episode follows the normal structure of First World War 'battle' pictures. The troops in columns march up to the villages behind the lines. The guns, including a 12-inch railway gun and an 18-pou...
The captions are violent: "From July 1st our offensive never slackened; town after town fell to the assaults of our indomitable troops." A map of the Flers-Courcelette area. Male and Female Mark I tan...
Newsreel item on a bombardment by the gunboat HMS Moth from the bank of the Euphrates, Mesopotamian Front, summer 1918.
Newsreel item on British soldiers clearing up debris in Béthune after the German retreat, Western Front, September 1918.
The battle of Zborov: Three soldiers in the trench, Tomeš in the middle.
The battle of Zborov: A soldier gives to smell a rotten can to his sleeping friend.
The battle of Zborov: Several soldiers in the trench with stuffy noses. One of them holds a rotten can.
The battle of Zborov: Several soldiers sit in the trench.
The batttle of Zborov: A board with the slogan in Austrian trenches - "Wer diese Stellungen erstürmt vernichtet Österreich."/ "A conqueror of this position will defeat Austria".
The battle of Zborov: Several soldiers hidden in the trench.
An office with two sitting Russian generals (on the left Rudolf Medek - author of the synopsis). Tomeš registers himself as a volunteer.
A documentary part: First days of the independent Czechoslovak Republic - František Udržal speaks to the gathering of people in front of the monument of Jan Hus.
O. Verf.. "Kinematographische Landesreklame." Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie III,6 (1913/1914): 150. In Italien werde der Film als Werbemittel zur Ankurbelung des Tour...
Berthold Baer, Wie lange noch ?, Der Kinematograph, 415, (1914), S. 21-22 Klage über einseitig deutschenfeindliche Kriegsberichterstattung in amerikanischen Kinos. Forderung nach deutschen Aufnahmen,...
Mit der Kamera in der Schlachtfront.“ Der Kinematograph 397 (1914): 7. Werbeanzeige, die die Bedeutung der Filmaufnahmen gerade angesichts des drohenden Krieges hervorhebt.
Hellwig, Albert. „Die Plakatzensur in Preussen.“ Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie III,5 (1913/1914): 104-106. Rekapitulierung der Rechtslage zu Filmplakaten.
O. Verf.. „Mars regiert die Stunde.“ Der Kinematograph 397 (1914): 5-8. Aufruf an die Kinoindustrie, sich angesichts des Krieges in die Dienste des Vaterlandes zu stellen. Vorschlag, möglichst ak...
Hermann Häfker, Berliner Höhe, Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie, IV,6, (1914/1915), S. 127-129. Das Kino sei auf einem Tiefpunkt angelangt. Kriegsfilme wie der besproc...